On Friday 05 May 2006 10:36, Nick Wiltshire wrote: > On Thursday 04 May 2006 11:51 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote: > > On Thursday 04 May 2006 22:58, Nick Wiltshire wrote: > > > my biggest problem with aRts is that it doesn't play nice with other > > > sound engines - notably that if it is using the device it seems to > > > kidnap it and, for example, I have to restart FF to get flash to have > > > sound. Is this a misconfiguration? > > > > no. it's just the mess that is linux multimedia right now. > > Will Phonon help, or add to the frey? :) It sounds like (from my reading) > it is at least a step in the right direction.
it's a step in the right direction. it essentially decouples kde from the final media system decision. which means that if the vendor/system integrator/user decides to use gstreamer or nmm or arts or $WHATEVER, as long as there is a phonon backend for that system, kde will work properly and not get in the way. this also, of course, could end up having positive implications for running/writing kde apps on operating systems like macos and windows. if all open source desktop software adopts a similar approach, then it will finally be up to the media system developers and system integrators to make the right decisions for their platforms. in the meantime, kde continues to lead the way by doing the right thing. -- Aaron J. Seigo GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 Full time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)
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